Whatever happened to the IPv4 address crisis?

We all heard the cries, years ago, about how the world was running out of IPv4 addresses. It was big news, in 2011, when the IANA handed out the last blocks of IPv4 address space. Yet - most networks still haven't converted to IPv6, and the Internet is still chugging along. Was it just a false scare? Or have we only successfully postponed the inevitable? Check out this article that addresses (no pun intended) those questions:

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Deb Shinder

Debra Littlejohn Shinder is a technology and security analyst and author specializing in identity, security and cybercrime, utilizing her past experience as a police officer and police academy/criminal justice instructor. She has written numerous books and articles for web and print publications and has been awarded the Microsoft MVP designation for fourteen years in a row.

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